CRT130BED/260A

Copy of a presentation by Captain W.H. Smyth on the Observatory recently erected at Bedford copied from the publication of the Royal Astronomical Society volume IV. Includes article by Keith Sugden published in Sky & Telescope January 1982 'An Eclectic Astronomer' giving details of Captain Smyth's life and 'Reflections on the Sadler-Smyth scandal' in 1879 during which Herbert Sadler accused Smyth of errors and copying other people's work. Sadler was discredited and subsequently resigned from the Royal Astronomical Society.

December 10 1830; 1982

From: 1830 To: 1982

Old accession number 12287, 9237

English

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Smyth, W.H.,
Sadler, Herbert

BEDFORD, Bedford The Crescent, astronomy